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[DDAVIS]

I have a page on Apollo which is updated annually. Do others feel more optimistic than i do on the prospects for return? I for one won't believe we will leave LEO until the hardware to do it is actually being built.

http://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/Apollo30.html

[RedSky]

Your Apollo 11 time mirror concept is both very enlightening and depressing.

You are actually being quite optimistic when you say:
"I for one won't believe we will leave LEO until the hardware to do it is actually being built."

I, myself, wish I could be that hopeful. Don't forget, there are ISS modules sitting in a storage area at KSC which will probably never see the vacuum of space. (And, in another field, don't forget the Superconducting Super Collider that was half excavated, then abandoned).

I'll believe we really are going to do it after the initial "test flights". Don't forget, there were Apollo's 7, 8, 9, and 10 before 11's landing. When we get a launch date set for the equivalent of an Apollo 8 type shake-down mission... then I'll believe it.

Edit: (And don't forget the Saturn V's for the cancelled Apollos 18, 19, and 20 are now tourist attractions at KSC, Houston JSC, and Huntsville AL).